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upon them and in danger of being fired at 

 by our own men. Such a night of anxiety 

 and danger 1 never vsince passed, and blessed 

 my God when the day began to dawn. 



As some of you, gentlemen, to whom I 

 send these few pages may have done me the 

 honour of reading a pamphlet, published 

 for me by Mr. Stockdale, Bookseller, 

 Piccadilly, opposite to Burlington House, 

 in the beginning of .the year 1804, entitled 

 Reflections on ilie menaced Invasion, and the 

 Means of protecting the Capital, 8(c, 8(c, 8(c., 

 in the latter part of which I make mention 

 of hght troops and of a gun which light 

 troops should be armed with ; I beg y>ou 

 will observe, 'that the gun I therein spoke of 

 was only a superior sort of musket to the 

 commxon musket now in use and is totally dif^ 

 f event and distinct in qucditi/, infinitely inferior 

 in excellence and not to be compared to 

 the gun I now speak of; for I expressly 

 stated that the former gun I made mention 

 of would not do any execution further than 

 150 or 200 yards at most, and then not 

 shoot Vv ith any perfect degree of precision. 

 It was only represented as a better sort of 



